Over the past nine years, Ruth McGarry Quinn has built Torc Truffles into a €1m turnover company employing 25 people. It has not been easy for McGarry Quinn who started Torc with no formal business training and modest resources. What kept her going was job satisfaction and total belief in her product.

Her decision to eschew the multiples in favour of supplying speciality food stores has cost her sales and volume, but she is passionate about Torc remaining an artisan producer.

McGarry Quinn identified her company’s three main challenges to the Enterprise Network as managing cash flow, coping with undercutting from competitors and developing retail business. Apart from its chocolate-making operation, Torc has a cafe in Longford and McGarry Quinn